Two days ago, I tried Masterworking a normal Longsword purchased from a Blacksmith, and got the Weapon Damage masterwork bonus. This added a +2 to my Longsword for +2.5% Weapon Damage. This subtracted 10 from my weapon durability as well.

Virtual currency will never be as valuable as real currency due to a few reasons.

1.
The first and most important reason is that real currency can be used
immediately to buy goods/services. Whereas virtual currency is limited
to buying goods/services in the game world.

2.
There is an intermediate step - the selling process - needed to covert
virtual currency into real currency before its value can be manifested
in the purchase of real goods and services. This selling process takes
time and effort, and subtracts from the value of virtual currency when
you are comparing virtual currency to real currency. That is why, when
you are given the choice to pay for a virtual product/service in either
virtual or real currency, opt to use virtual currency.

I
have never played a game so diligently as sota. The simple reason is
that it allows RMT (real money trading). I can't recall the last time I
played a game purely for fun. It was either to grind for skill points to
make my character stronger (dcuo), grind games for a portrait
(starcraft 2) or farm gold purely to sell later on (WoW). The last game
which i played for story reasons was starcraft 2: legacy of the void.
Before that, it grows hazy. Maybe fallout 1 i guess. Way before that was
Wasteland and The Bard's Tale. There was also Wing Commander,
Civilization and Ultima 6. Note that all these are old single player
games which came out before the Internet. When the Internet was
relatively new, I was keen on Starcraft.

Recent
games which i played to get some cool styles are WoW: Legion (to get
Ashbringer for my paladin), and dcuo (to get the Firestorm head style).

The
last time I was really hooked on a game was around 2013, when the Home
Turf expansion was released for dcuo. I had a blast decorating my base,
and posted about it on my blog. Mepps even mentioned my blog on the
forums, that resulted in a spike in my blog viewership.

Woot, i bought a Wayland Loop yesterday for 150k gold. It is my dream to be a master blacksmith specializing in blades, shields and plate armor. This will likely be impossible, given the super tedious process of crafting. So the Wayland Loop will be a pretty trinket sitting in my bank, reminding me of my virtual aspirations.